Some thoughts on principles for scientific attribution

Today I posted a document that should help define a set of principles for scientific attribution. These principles will be presented and discussed at the National Science Foundation workshop Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age on November 12. Many people helped me with this document (Cameron Neylon in particular), and I welcome comments and suggestions.

5 Responses to Some thoughts on principles for scientific attribution

Perhaps it’s just my particular gripe, (and not directly related to your suggestions) but I wish more science bloggers would cite their images. The illustrations used are often completely uncredited, as if they are unimportant embellishments to the articles. Yet an illustrator has gone to school, is scientifically literate and works hard to contribute, and receives no credit.

About Gobbledygook

Martin Fenner has for many years worked as medical doctor and cancer researcher at the Hannover Medical School Cancer Center in Germany. In May 2012 he started contract work as technical lead for the PLoS Article Level Metrics project. He is writing about how the internet is changing scholarly communication. Martin can be found on Twitter as @mfenner.